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Lummus to provide technology for Kazakhstan’s first polyethylene plant

Lummus Technology (Houston) announced a contract award from Silleno LLP for an ethylene unit, which will be part of the first polyethylene plant to be built in the Republic of Kazakhstan. Strategically located at the National Industrial Petrochemical Technopark in the…

Trelleborg acquires thermoplastics company Magee Plastics

Trelleborg Group AB (Trelleborg, Sweden) has, through its Trelleborg Sealing Solutions business area, signed an agreement to acquire the U.S.-based company Magee Plastics. The company manufactures and performs services on solutions made from high-performance thermoplastic and composite materials for the…

PPG completes expansion of industrial coatings plant in Vietnam

PPG (Pittsburgh, Pa.) announced the completion of upgrades that have expanded the capacity of its Yen Phong industrial coatings plant in Bắc Ninh province, Vietnam. The enhancements include a new production line dedicated to PPG Aquacron waterborne decorative and functional…

Mitsubishi Chemical studying chemical recycling of tires in coke ovens

The Mitsubishi Chemical Group (MCG; Tokyo) has launched studies to perform chemical recycling of end-of-life tires (ELTs) by utilizing the coke ovens at its Kagawa Plant (Sakaide City, Kagawa Prefecture). The MCG Group aims to begin marketing sustainable carbon black…

Air Products acquires hydrogen production assets in Uzbekistan

Air Products (Lehigh Valley, Pa.) announced that it has agreed to acquire Saneg’s hydrogen production assets for $140 million, located at the Fergana Oil Refinery in Uzbekistan. This strategic acquisition is in alignment with the refinery's global modernization process and…

Toyo Engineering, PIHC and Itochu to collaborate on green ammonia project in Indonesia

Toyo Engineering Corp. (Tokyo)  has signed a Joint Development Agreement (JDA) with Pupuk Indonesia Holding Company (PIHC), a state-owned fertilizer company in Indonesia, and Itochu Corp. Corporation (Tokyo). The agreement focuses on producing green ammonia by installing an electrolyzer at…

Lyondellbasell to acquire recycling technology firm APK AG

LyondellBasell (LYB; Rotterdam, the Netherlands) announced it entered into an agreement to acquire full ownership of APK AG in Merseburg, Germany. Enabled by its technology, the acquisition positions LYB to grow and upgrade its Circular and Low Carbon Solutions business.…

Lanxess announces plans to continue production of chromium oxide pigments

Lanxess AG (Cologne, Germany) is continuing the production of chromium oxide pigments at the Krefeld-Uerdingen site and is discontinuing its original plans to sell the business. Around 50 people are employed at the plant for chromium oxides, which are used…

Fujifilm Diosynth Biotechnologies opens microbial manufacturing facility in the U.K.

Fujifilm Diosynth Biotechnologies, a contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO) for biologics, vaccines, advanced therapies, and oncolytic viruses, announced the opening of its microbial fermentation manufacturing facility in Billingham, U.K. This new facility triples existing microbial production throughput with the…

Cepsa to sell liquefied gas subsidiary in Spain and Portugal to Abastible

Cespa (Madrid, Spain) has agreed to sell its subsidiaries for butane, propane, and autogas (Gasib) to Abastible S.A., a subsidiary of the Chilean Empresas Copec group and a leader in the Liquefied Gas business in Latin America. Under the agreement,…